Maryland Writers' Association
Member Web Sites

Are you an MWA member who is also a published author? List your credits on this page! Just send an e-mail to the MWA webmaster with your name, website or blog URL, and a 75-word (max) "dust-jacket" blurb. We'll take care of the rest and let you know when it's posted here.

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Ann Roscopf Allen
www.aserpentcherished.com

A former Salisbury University English instructor, Ann Roscopf Allen researched an unbelievable true story from her native Arkansas to create the suspenseful and scandal-filled historical novel, A Serpent Cherished. Beautiful, greedy, and vengeful, the widow of a famous Confederate general seizes the plantation of her married lover, resulting in a series of highly publicized lawsuits and a noontime murder in downtown Memphis.

Chris Bancells
www.runningbowline.com

A bowline (boh-lin) is an ancient knot which forms a loop that won't slip or jam, but comes loose when you need it to. The running bowline takes a strong knot and gives it the ability to loop around all things great and small. My writing may not be as sturdy, but it's good inspiration. Read what you find here, pass it on, and always feel free to drop me a line at cbancells@gmail.com

Michael Barbour
www.robinbayne.com

Robin Bayne is an award-winning author of contemporary romance and inspirational fiction. Visit her site and be sure to enter the drawing for a Ty Beanie Baby.

Beth Blevins
beblevins.blogspot.com

Beth Blevins offers essays on writing, blogging and getting published on her blog, Writing Home, as well as interviews with writers. Check the blog regularly for Call-Outs (requests for submissions) to writers on topics ranging from rejection to tracking submissions.

Beth has worked as a newspaper reporter, freelance feature writer, librarian and editor, as well as a waitress, vegetarian cook and bookstore cashier. She published the little magazine, a very small magazine, for more than a decade.

Ann Bracken
www.possibilityproject.com

Ann is an expressive arts coach and learning specialist with over fifteen years' experience in education, linguistics, learning disabilities, and creative arts therapy. She designs programs for adults experiencing life transitions who desire to make important changes in their personal and professional lives. For adolescents, Ann designs both self discovery and academic programs focused on writing and organization. All programs involve a skillful blend of journaling, improv, and poetry.

Mindie Burgoyne
writingthevision.com

Mindie Burgoyne is the author of two books published by Arcadia Publishing -- each focusing on an Eastern Shore historic town. Additionally she is a freelance writer who has authored a monthly column for a Gannett newspaper as well as published articles with Gazette newspapers, Shore Living Magazine, Metropolitan Magazine, Music News, National Catholic Reporter, Connaught Tribune, and many online publications. She lives in Marion Station in rural Somerset County, MD.

Austin S. Camacho
www.ascamacho.com

Austin S. Camacho is the author of three mystery novels in the Hannibal Jones series and the new action thriller, The Payback Assignment. He is active in several local writers' organizations and teaches a variety of writing classes at Anne Arundel Community College. Learn more about Camacho's writing life, read synopses and sample chapters of his novels, and read interesting essays on mysteries in general on his web site.

Kerry Dunnington
www.thisbookcooks.com

When author of popular cookbook, This Book Cooks, Kerry Dunnington isn't developing recipes in the kitchen she can be found doing presentations on How to Market Nonfiction or doing cooking demonstrations at Whole Foods markets in and around the region. Dunnington's food columns appear in baltimore eats, Baltimore SmartWoman and her biweekly weekend food column, Cooking with Kerry, appears in the Healthy Life section of the San Francisco, Baltimore, Virginia and Washington, DC Examiner.

Nathan A. Ferguson
www.nateferguson.com

Nathan A. Ferguson is a writer, pilot and adventurer. He has covered Indian reservations, high-profile crime and the environment for newspapers in Utah, Wyoming and California. Currently living in Maryland, he recently finished a novel and is taking on more freelance projects. See his online portfolio.

Joya Fields
www.joyafields.com

Over 40 of Joya's stories and articles have been published in magazines and newspapers, and she's putting the finishing touches on her third novel . . . a romantic suspense. Learn more about her novels, upcoming article releases, and resources for writers.

Cindy Gallagher (writing as Cynthia Polansky)
www.cynthiapolansky.com

Learn about award-winning writer Cynthia Polansky, read synopses of her novels and where to order them, and find useful links to samples of her work.

Tom Glenn
tom-tells-tales.org

Many of Tom Glenn's stories came from his undercover work in Vietnam (now declassified -- he's receiving calls from reporters). He writes about fathers and children and his work with AIDS patients, the homeless, and the dying. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and a Baltimore ArtScape Literary Award and won the Hackney Literary Award. The MWA awarded him an annual prize for the novel three times, including the grand prize in 2004.

Eric D. Goodman
www.writeful.blogspot.com

Eric D. Goodman is a full-time writer and editor. He's been
published in The Washington Post, On Stage Magazine,
Travel Insights, Coloquio, The Neck of My Guitar, and The
Federal Voice. He recently received
an honorable mention in The Baltimore Review's annual fiction
competition and has stories forthcoming in The Baltimore Review,
To Be Read Aloud, Writer's
Weekly and the Write Here Write Now Anthology. He's
read his fiction at the Baltimore Book Festival and the Patterson Theater. His
memberships include the Maryland Writers' Association, the Writers' Center,
Baltimore's Creative Alliance and the International Association of
Business Communicators, and he is involved with Baltimore's CityLit
Project and Write Here Write Now. Eric seeks an agent to represent his novel
in stories, TRACKS. Visit the website to Eric's novel at www.train-tracks.blogspot.com.
And read Writeful, Eric's weblog for writers and readers at, www.writeful.blogspot.com.

Louise Harris
www.freewebs.com/lastresearch

Louise Harris aspired to write since her youth. She published her first poem at age 12, wrote her first song at age eight, and wrote stories in her youth. She graduated from the University of Maryland College of Journalism and became an editor to further pursue her dream of writing. The 1776 Scroll is her first novel. Louise lives in Hanover, Md., with her husband, three children and two cats. Her heart remains in Philly.

John Hayes
john-bluebat.blogspot.com
mysite.verizon.net/vze7w3iq/johnhayessculpture

John is a sculptor who also acts and directs in Community Theater. He appeared as a scurvy looking corpse and as a homeless man on Homicide and as a clothing shopper on The Wire. John likes to give poetry readings. His poetry and fiction have been published in Flesh and Blood, NFG, Cemetery Moon, Thema, BareBone, Modern Haiku, Writers Journal, Champagne Shivers, Premonitions, and over a hundred other magazines. Five of his one-act plays were produced.

Bobbie Hinman
www.bestfairybooks.com

Bobbie has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education and is right at home when it comes to children's literature. She is currently writing a series of children's books about the fanciful world of fairies. She has discovered some of the less practical and more magical explanations for some mysterious "happenings." After all, who better to blame it on than the fairies? The first book in the series is The Knot Fairy, about a tiny fairy who visits children while they sleep and is responsible for the knots and tangles in their hair.

Bobbie is also the author of seven successful cookbooks, including the Lean & Luscious series and The Meatless Gourmet series.

Frank S. Joseph
www.tolovemercy.com

Frank S. Joseph's first novel, TO LOVE MERCY, was published in 2006 by Mid-Atlantic Highlands. It has won six national awards and gone into a second printing. He is at work on two sequels, TO WALK HUMBLY and TO DO JUSTICE. Frank has been a Washington Post and Associated Press journalist, publisher, direct marketer, and copywriter. He and his wife Carol are the parents of Sam and Shawn. They live in Chevy Chase MD.

Al Karasa
www.alsbooks.com

Al Karasa is an eclectic writer in subjects ranging from maritime fiction to heraldic sciences. His books include Sidney's Pub (2007), Firehead's Malice (2003), Drive Smart! (2001), and Sherridan's Rain (1995). His work has been seen in national magazines for over 25 years. He was a columnist for The Courier and at MCA Magazine and has been locally featured in Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Life. Lament: "So many hobbies, so little time."

Paul Lagasse
www.seeingthroughclouds.com

Based in Baltimore, Paul Lagasse is an award-winning freelance writer whose articles have appeared in a wide range of periodicals and on the Web. He also provides technical writing and editing services to private, non-profit, and government clients. His young-adult novel Seeing Through Clouds, set in the late 1930s in Nazi Germany, provides a unique perspective on an important historical period.

Emma Larkins
emmalarkins.blogspot.com

Emma Larkins has a dream: to make a living as a published author. Her publication credits include a story titled "Midsummer Disc Dreams" in the outdoor literary magazine In the Mist, an ongoing feature at the Blood-Red Pencil Blog (http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com), and an article called "The Writer's Passion" on the Feminine Aspects website. She's currently working on getting short stories published, connecting with the writing and publishing community online, and writing her first novel.

Sonia L. Linebaugh
www.atthefeetofmothermeera.com

Sonia L. Linebaugh is a freelance writer and artist. Her book At the Feet of Mother Meera: The Lessons of Silence goes straight to the heart of the Westerner's dilemma: How can we live fully as both spiritual and material beings? Sonia is working on another book and also writes short stories. She has served as editor of MWA's Pen in Hand and e-Newswire.

Loree Lough
www.loreelough.com
theloughdown.blogspot.com

Loree Lough has 70 books, 62 stories, and 2,500+ articles in print. Known for edgy, heart-tugging adventures, her stories have earned dozens of industry awards. In October of '09, she signed contracts for 8 more books to be released by year-end '11, and she has fingers crossed that projects under consideration at other houses will inspire the same results.

Newton Love
www.newtlove.com

Born Texan, Newt Love grew up Californian, leaving home at sixteen. A former Marine, he read theology in college, changed to physics, then dropped out to join a Silicon Valley start-up. He quit to surf a Florida hurricane season, watching every sunset of 1981. He took a degree in math/economics then worked military war-games. He sold a contata and is writing Sitting Bull, an opera. As an author, he's sold 3 novels to 2 publishers.

Diane Marquette
www.dianemarquette.com

Diane Marquette has written three published novels, as well as 150 regionally and nationally published articles, and coordinates the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference.

Roger W. McIntire, Ph.D.
www.parentsuccess.com

Dr. McIntire's award-winning books for parents are practical, readable, reassuring and published in ten languages worldwide. Parent Council calls his book, Raising Good Kids in Tough Times, "Outstanding." The Virginia School Counselor Association applauds his book, Teenagers & Parents, as "a very valuable resource for high school counselors to use with parents." His website features a new tip for parents each month, an online bookstore for parents, a tips archive, and a resources page.

Rosemary and Larry Mild
www.magicile.com

Award-winning coauthors of the Paco and Molly Murder Mysteries: Boston Scream Pie, just out -- a harrowing tale of twins and their vicious feuding families; Locks & Cream Cheese -- murder and larceny in a Chesapeake Bay mansion; and Hot Grudge Sunday -- conspirators disrupt the sleuths' honeymoon out West. Rosemary authored Miriam's Gift: A Mother's Blessings -- Then and Now, a memoir about the joyous life of their daughter killed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Jill Morrow
www.jillmorrow.net

I am the author of Angel Cafe, a Paraview Pocket book published by Simon & Schuster (other books to follow.) I'd love to hear from you; learn about me and my book, then post a message or send me an email.

B. Morrison
www.bmorrison.com

B. Morrison writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Here at Least, her recent collection of poetry, is now available from Cottey House Press. The award-winning writer lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and travels widely. Visit her website for more information and to join her mailing list. Also, check out her Monday morning book blog at www.bmorrison.com/blog and start each week by talking about books.

Mohamed Mughal
www.mohamedmughal.com

Mohamed Mughal is an American of Indian heritage, born in Africa and raised in Maryland. Mohamed has published a number of non-fiction articles on chemical warfare and biological terrorism. He published his debut novel, Resolution 786, in January 2008. Mohamed holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a M.S. in Engineering Management and a PhD in Public Policy and is a former U.S. Army Commissioned Officer.

Anarda Nashai
www.anardanashai.webs.com

Anarda Nashai is a poet, fiction writer, research associate, and a collector of unique handbags. Having published her first collection of poetry, School Girl: Poetry and Prose of a Pre and Post Adolescent, she is currently working on several literary projects. Her interests include watching international films and documentaries, psychology, international women's rights, and of course: READING and WRITING. To read excepts of her work, please visit her website.

Lalita Noronha
www.lalitanoronha.com

Born in India, Lalita Noronha earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology, and is research scientist, writer, poet and teacher at St. Paul's School for Girls. Her literary work has been widely published (Baltimore Sun, Crab Orchard Review, Catholic Digest, The Christian Science Monitor, Get Well Wishes, and 2001: A Science Poetry Anthology). She has received awards from Maryland State Arts Council (Literary Arts and Individual Artist), City Paper, and National League of American Pen Women. She is a fiction editor for The Baltimore Review and the author of a short story collection, Where Monsoons Cry

Ally E. Peltier
www.ambitiousenterprises.com

Ally E. Peltier is an editor, writer, and publishing consultant for individuals and businesses such as Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, Chronicle Books, and more. Ally formerly acquired and edited books for Touchstone Fireside/Simon & Schuster and has published articles in a variety of venues, including The Writer, Writer's Digest 2009 Guide to Literary Agents, and ConsumerSearch.com. A Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing, Ally also ghostauthors nonfiction books and teaches workshops for writers.

Carol L. Plotnick
www.chrysalispublications.com

Carol became interested in ultralights while at Oshkosh, WI, in July 2000. She soloed in an ultralight trainer at Shoestring Airport near Shrewsbury, PA, in June 2002. Since 2001, she has written several aviation articles for Light Sport and Ultralight Flying and Ultraflight magazines. Flying Wires, Carol's first novel, is now available for the Kindle.

Angela Render
www.hannibalofcarthage.org

Two larger than life generals, a distressing damsel and the tragic love story that inspired Shakespeare -- these are just the highlights of Forged By Lightning: A Novel of Hannibal and Scipio. This action packed historical fiction novel plunges the reader into history so detailed you can almost smell the incense.

Angela Render has long had a passion for history and martial arts. With an emphasis on ancient civilizations, she received her Bachelor of Arts in History from George Mason University. Her continuing studies have included the history of costume, weapons, religion and warfare. She enjoys traveling the world with her husband and daughter when she's not at home in Maryland tending to her yard or renovating her house.

Erika Robuck
www.erikarobuck.com
www.erikarobuck.wordpress.com

Erika Robuck is a writer and amateur historian. She writes historical fiction, and is self-publishing her novel, Receive Me Falling, in January 2009. It is set in the present day and in the past on the Caribbean island of Nevis on a sugar plantation. When she's not doing research or writing, she spends her time with her family in Maryland and North Carolina.

Steve Rossman
srossman.bdlcommunications.com

Steve Rossman uses constructive critique, providing positive manuscript feedback that pinpoints weaknesses, with suggestions for character development.

Working in the publishing, medical, and academic industries for over 14 years, Steve is an editor and proofreader specializing in fiction and educational workbooks, dissertations, and magazines. Ongoing clients include Kennedy Krieger Institute, Loyola College, and Johns Hopkins University. Clients are "impressed" and "thrilled" with his attention to detail and his excellent copyediting abilities -- consistency, usage, and coherency are of prime importance.

Beth Rubin
www.bethrubinauthor.com

Beth Rubin is an award-winning writer/author and editor based in Annapolis. Visit her site for excerpts from her prize-winning novel, Split Ends, info about her guidebooks to Washington, D.C. and other projects.

Karen L. Syed, aka Alexis Hart
www.hartofthematter.com

Karen L. Syed is the owner of Echelon Press Publishing. She has seen seven of her novels in print and published more than 200 novels and short stories by other authors. She is currently a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Writers' Association.

David Warfield
www.storysolver.com

David Warfield is a screenwriter, teacher, and story consultant. Recent projects include Linewatch (2008), starring Cuba Gooding Jr., released by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Other produced film credits include Ocean Park and Kill Me Again, as well as shows for the History Channel. He has had numerous short stories published and teaches film at Loyola College and other institutions. He holds an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, and is a member of the WGAW.

Bridget Bell Webber
www.bridgetbellwebber.com

McLeary's Mulligan, Bridget's debut novel, was named finalist in the USA Book News "Best Books 2004" Awards for mystery/suspense. To read an excerpt, order a copy, send a message, or enter a contest to win free golf balls, visit her site today!

D.L. Wilson
www.dlwilsonbooks.com

D.L. Wilson has written feature articles for Writer's Digest and The Writer magazines as well as a university textbook on the fashion industry, Apparel Merchandising -- The Line Starts Here.

Wilson's extensive international travel as a business executive, consultant, and educator spawned a fascination with world cultures, exotic locales, diverse religious beliefs, and foreign governments. He found the perfect outlet for his interests in the captivating world of fiction. His first suspense thriller, Unholy Grail (Berkley), reached the top ten in the U.S. Nielsen Bookscan ratings and is translated into five foreign languages. Bestselling author Clive Cussler says Unholy Grail is "A tale rich with intrigue that grips the imagination. A must read."